FETTERMAN BATTLEFIELD Battlefield — Story, Wyoming Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fetterman-battlefield-wyoming/ Battlefield associated with an allied tribal victory in 1866. A battlefield in Story, Wyoming, Fetterman Battlefield is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Battlefield associated with an allied tribal victory in 1866. The archive files it under dark history and battlefields. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors. Fetterman Battlefield is where eighty-one men walked into a trap the Plains tribes had spent weeks building. On December 21, 1866, Captain William Fetterman — seven weeks at Fort Phil Kearny, the boast about riding through the whole Sioux Nation attached to his name whether he said it or not — led eighty men over Lodge Trail Ridge after Crazy Horse's decoys. On the far side, more than a thousand Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho were waiting; the trap they'd rehearsed closed in thirty minutes. Not one soldier survived. The fight was Red Cloud's War's answer to Sand Creek — the tribes' planned execution of a command, the 'Battle of the Hundred in the Hand,' the retaliation for the 1864 massacre visited on the bodies. The nation's shock ran deep — the Army's worst Plains defeat until Little Bighorn, the command wiped out, the two volleys the fort heard from the ridge the last sound of them. The legend came from the women — Colonel Carrington's wives wrote the books that fixed Fetterman's arrogance as the cause; the archive notes the more complex truth the new history found. The ridge keeps the fight's shape — the 1908 monument over the spot where Fetterman's infantry died within forty feet of it, the rocks where Wheatley and Fisher's last stand left sixty arrows' worth of evidence, the interpretive trail that now tells both sides. The file holds the ground's double memory: the Army's disaster and the tribes' greatest victory, the same thirty minutes read two ways from the same ridge. Fetterman Battlefield is the archive's Lodge Trail Ridge file — the 1866 ambush where Crazy Horse's decoys drew Fetterman's eighty-one men into Red Cloud's trap, the Army's worst Plains defeat until Little Bighorn, told now from both sides of the ridge. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Fetterman Battlefield is the archive's trap file — the Lakota-Cheyenne-Arapaho ambush that wiped out an entire command in thirty minutes, the Red Cloud's War victory that the Army called a massacre and the tribes called the Hundred in the Hand. A ridge that ate a command keeps its decoys' path — the file's suggestion being that Fetterman's hold is the walk over the crest: the route the decoys drew them down, the monument where the volleys ended, and the ground both nations still claim. HISTORY — 2 documented facts · Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors defeated Fetterman’s detachment on December 21, 1866. The site's documented military history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Fetterman Battlefield' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine. · [1866-12-21] On December 21, 1866, Fetterman’s 80-man command was annihilated by Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors. The record dates it to 1866-12-21. The site's documented military history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Fetterman Fight'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. SOURCES — 2 cited · Fetterman Battlefield — WyoHistory.org https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/fetterman-battlefield · Fetterman Fight — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetterman_Fight — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/